We Teach Drama: Think Like A Sound Designer

We Teach Drama is a new initiative, a project set up by Drama teacher Lucy Bellingham and launched in 2021, to create and deliver free resources and CPD to inspire teachers and practitioners. Their first CPD session was a free webinar on Saturday 16 January with theatre sound designer Eva Collins Alonso, hosted on Zoom by Bellingham and attended, for an hour, by teachers all over the UK and as far afield as Hong Kong, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur.

The session was the first in a series of four, running on weekends through to 6 February – the others focussing on set, costume and lighting design respectively. It was easy (and free) to sign up on the website, and a week before the session took place I was sent my first countdown email, inviting me to join a private Facebook group for attendees of the session. This is a great idea: such an easy way to create a forum in which teachers can share their own ideas, answer each others’ queries, and post resources. Lucy and Eva themselves are both members of the group, and the longevity of this setup guarantees continued benefit for attendees long beyond the one-hour webinar.